John Cleveland named associate director of basic science at Moffitt Cancer Center

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JOHN CLEVELAND was named associate center director of basic science at Moffitt Cancer Center.

Cleveland comes to Moffitt from the Scripps Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute, where he served nearly eight years as a professor and chair of the Department of Cancer Biology. Prior to that, he spent more than 17 years at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He also completed a fellowship and senior fellowship at NCI.

He currently serves as a member of the Extramural Scientific Advisory Board for the Gastrointestinal SPORE programs at the University of Arizona and the Blood Research Institute of Wisconsin. He has served as editor for numerous scientific journals and has been a long-serving member and ad-hoc reviewer for NIH R01 Grant Program and Project Grant Review Committees.

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